FRANCE: Pause Wins

The second poll in France's nationwide
election for municipal councilors (TIME, Oct. 18), confirmed last week
the first results tabulated fortnight ago, proved two things: 1) the
Radical Socialist Party of Premier Camille Chautemps. a party which is
not radical but studiously middleclass, still polls more votes in
local elections than any other; 2) the Socialist Party of Vice

Premier Léon Blum, which is an actual Socialist party and polled most
votes in the national election last year, has not repeated this triumph
in the local balloting. This meant that the French "New...